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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6611S, -98.4647WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -98.4647 West, latitude 36.6611 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/03/19 / 2019-03-02 10:20:39 / March 2, 2019 @ 10:20 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000j9u9. Id of event: us1000j9u9. The temblor was reported at 04:20:39 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4647° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-02 10:20:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-02 10:39:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000j9u9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000j9u9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000j9u9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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